<div dir="ltr">Thanks Justing. Yes, that was the idea :-)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/6/18 Justin Richer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jricher@mitre.org" target="_blank">jricher@mitre.org</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  

    
  
  <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
    Forwarding Nat's response out to the wider list, as I believe that
    was his intent.<br>
    <div><br>
      <br>
      -------- Original Message --------
      <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
        <tbody>
          <tr>
            <th align="RIGHT" nowrap valign="BASELINE">Subject:
            </th>
            <td>Re: [Openid-specs-ab] Draft note to IETF</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th align="RIGHT" nowrap valign="BASELINE">Date: </th>
            <td>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:04:36 +0900</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th align="RIGHT" nowrap valign="BASELINE">From: </th>
            <td>Nat Sakimura <a href="mailto:sakimura@gmail.com" target="_blank"><sakimura@gmail.com></a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th align="RIGHT" nowrap valign="BASELINE">To: </th>
            <td>Justin Richer <a href="mailto:jricher@mitre.org" target="_blank"><jricher@mitre.org></a></td>
          </tr>
        </tbody>
      </table><div><div class="h5">
      <br>
      <br>
      
      <div dir="ltr">... and so is NRI; NRI has implemented OpenID
        Connect for several major identity providers in Japan. </div>
      <div class="gmail_extra"><br>
        <br>
        <div class="gmail_quote">2013/6/17 Justin Richer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jricher@mitre.org" target="_blank">jricher@mitre.org</a>></span><br>
          <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
            <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> MITRE's
              implementation has been live on our public server for
              nearly a year now, and a number of other groups have used
              the MITREid Connect open source project in their own
              deployments. <br>
              <span><font color="#888888"> <br>
                   -- Justin</font></span>
              <div>
                <div><br>
                  <br>
                  <div>On 06/15/2013 02:53 AM, Torsten Lodderstedt
                    wrote:<br>
                  </div>
                  <blockquote type="cite">
                    <div>Deutsche Telekom's implementation is available
                      in production since last Wednesday.</div>
                    <div><br>
                    </div>
                    <div>Regards,</div>
                    <div>Torsten.</div>
                    <div><br>
                      Am 13.06.2013 um 18:32 schrieb Brian Campbell <<a href="mailto:bcampbell@pingidentity.com" target="_blank">bcampbell@pingidentity.com</a>>:<br>
                      <br>
                    </div>
                    <blockquote type="cite">
                      <div>
                        <div dir="ltr">Also, FWIW, Ping Identity's
                          initial OpenID Connect product support went
                          from just "announced" to actually "generally
                          available" yesterday.<br>
                          <br>
                          <a href="https://www.pingidentity.com/about-us/press-release.cfm?customel_datapageid_1516=70050" target="_blank">https://www.pingidentity.com/about-us/press-release.cfm?customel_datapageid_1516=70050</a><br>

                        </div>
                        <div class="gmail_extra"><br>
                          <br>
                          <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 13, 2013
                            at 10:26 AM, Nat Sakimura <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sakimura@gmail.com" target="_blank">sakimura@gmail.com</a>></span>
                            wrote:<br>
                            <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
                              <div dir="auto">
                                <div>Not Amazon yet. They are waiting
                                  for us. Paypal, yes. <br>
                                  <br>
                                  =nat via iPhone</div>
                                <div><br>
                                  Jun 14, 2013 1:19$B!"(BMike Jones <<a href="mailto:Michael.Jones@microsoft.com" target="_blank">Michael.Jones@microsoft.com</a>>

                                  $B$N%a%C%;!<%8(B:<br>
                                  <br>
                                </div>
                                <div>
                                  <div>
                                    <blockquote type="cite">
                                      <div>
                                        <div>
                                          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Yes. 

                                              Updated below…</span></p>
                                          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span></p>
                                          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">To:

                                              <a href="mailto:jose-chairs@tools.ietf.org" target="_blank">jose-chairs@tools.ietf.org</a>;
                                              <a href="mailto:oauth-chairs@tools.ietf.org" target="_blank">
                                                oauth-chairs@tools.ietf.org</a></span></p>
                                          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Cc:

                                              <a href="mailto:iesg@ietf.org" target="_blank">iesg@ietf.org</a>; <a href="mailto:draft-ietf-oauth-json-web-token@tools.ietf.org" target="_blank">
draft-ietf-oauth-json-web-token@tools.ietf.org</a>; <a href="mailto:draft-ietf-jose-json-web-encryption@tools.ietf.org" target="_blank">
draft-ietf-jose-json-web-encryption@tools.ietf.org</a></span></p>
                                          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Subject:

                                              Liaison statement from
                                              OpenID Foundation to IETF
                                              on JWT and JOSE</span></p>
                                          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span></p>
                                          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">I’m

                                              writing on behalf of the
                                              OpenID Connect Working
                                              Group, in the OpenID
                                              Foundation.  We have been
                                              working for three years on
                                              specifying this
                                              identity-federation
                                              protocol. Our
                                              specifications have
                                              reached stability (what we
                                              call “Implementer’s
                                              Drafts”) and we anticipate
                                              a final vote and approval
                                              in the coming months.
                                               We’re confident approval
                                              will be forthcoming since
                                              OpenID Connect is already
                                              in production at Google
                                              and Amazon, a product has
                                              been announced by Ping
                                              Identity, a JWT product
                                              has shipped from
                                              Microsoft, and we expect
                                              numerous OpenID Connect
                                              and JWT deployments in the
                                              coming months.</span></p>
                                          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span></p>
                                          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Our

                                              work is dependent on the
                                              JSON Web Token (JWT) and
                                              the JSON Object Signing
                                              and Encryption (JOSE)
                                              specifications, products
                                              of the IETF OAuth and JOSE
                                              working groups.  JWTs have
                                              been stable for some time,
                                              and code to parse and
                                              validate them is widely
                                              available in libraries for
                                              popular programming
                                              languages.  However,
                                              progress towards an RFC in
                                              JOSE seems slow, which is
                                              holding up the JWT RFC in
                                              OAuth, and we do not have
                                              a clear feeling when this
                                              work is likely to
                                              complete.  As chartered,
                                              the JOSE documents were to
                                              have gone to working group
                                              last call a year ago and
                                              this still has not
                                              happened.</span></p>
                                          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span></p>
                                          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Unfortunately,

                                              it’s not practical for our
                                              membership to wait
                                              indefinitely, and thus our
                                              most likely course of
                                              action will be to take
                                              dependencies
                                              on draft-ietf-oauth-json-web-token-08
                                              and the -11 versions of
                                              the JOSE specifications or
                                              subsequent versions that
                                              are compatible with them
                                              when the time comes to
                                              publish our final
                                              specifications.  It would
                                              obviously be preferable
                                              for the JWT and JOSE RFCs
                                              to be completed in a
                                              timely fashion instead.</span></p>
                                          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span></p>
                                          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">We

                                              bring this to your
                                              attention simply because
                                              if some other organization
                                              were planning to lock in a
                                              dependency on one of our
                                              earlier drafts, we’d like
                                              to hear about it.</span></p>
                                          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span></p>
                                          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">--

                                              Tim Bray for the OpenID
                                              Connect Working Group and
                                              the OpenID Foundation</span></p>
                                          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p>
                                          <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
                                              Brian Campbell [<a href="mailto:bcampbell@pingidentity.com" target="_blank">mailto:bcampbell@pingidentity.com</a>]
                                              <br>
                                              <b>Sent:</b> Thursday,
                                              June 13, 2013 9:13 AM<br>
                                              <b>To:</b> Mike Jones<br>
                                              <b>Cc:</b> Tim Bray; <<a href="mailto:openid-specs-ab@lists.openid.net" target="_blank">openid-specs-ab@lists.openid.net</a>><br>
                                              <b>Subject:</b> Re:
                                              [Openid-specs-ab] Draft
                                              note to IETF</span></p>
                                          <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                                          <div>
                                            <p class="MsoNormal">"<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">were

                                                have gone" -> "were
                                                to have gone" ... ?</span></p>
                                          </div>
                                          <div>
                                            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"> </p>
                                            <div>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal">On
                                                Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at
                                                9:30 AM, Mike Jones <<a href="mailto:Michael.Jones@microsoft.com" target="_blank">Michael.Jones@microsoft.com</a>>

                                                wrote:</p>
                                              <div>
                                                <div>
                                                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Tim

                                                      – a slightly
                                                      revised note
                                                      follows.  The
                                                      working group
                                                      agreed for you to
                                                      circulate it
                                                      privately to
                                                      insiders for
                                                      feedback.  We also
                                                      need to run this
                                                      by the board
                                                      before formally
                                                      sending it, since
                                                      it’s speaking on
                                                      behalf of the
                                                      foundation.  If
                                                      you can let us
                                                      know what kinds of
                                                      informal feedback
                                                      you receive, that
                                                      would be great.</span></p>
                                                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p>
                                                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">                                                           

                                                      -- Mike</span></p>
                                                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p>
                                                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">To:

                                                      <a href="mailto:jose-chairs@tools.ietf.org" target="_blank">jose-chairs@tools.ietf.org</a>;
                                                      <a href="mailto:oauth-chairs@tools.ietf.org" target="_blank">oauth-chairs@tools.ietf.org</a></span></p>
                                                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Cc:

                                                      <a href="mailto:iesg@ietf.org" target="_blank">iesg@ietf.org</a>; <a href="mailto:draft-ietf-oauth-json-web-token@tools.ietf.org" target="_blank">
draft-ietf-oauth-json-web-token@tools.ietf.org</a>; <a href="mailto:draft-ietf-jose-json-web-encryption@tools.ietf.org" target="_blank">
draft-ietf-jose-json-web-encryption@tools.ietf.org</a></span></p>
                                                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Subject:

                                                      Liaison statement
                                                      from OpenID
                                                      Foundation to IETF
                                                      on JWT and JOSE</span></p>
                                                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span></p>
                                                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">I’m

                                                      writing on behalf
                                                      of the OpenID
                                                      Connect Working
                                                      Group, in the
                                                      OpenID Foundation.
                                                       We have been
                                                      working for three
                                                      years on
                                                      specifying this
                                                      identity-federation
                                                      protocol. Our
                                                      specifications
                                                      have reached
                                                      stability (what we
                                                      call
                                                      “Implementer’s
                                                      Drafts”) and we
                                                      anticipate a final
                                                      vote and approval
                                                      in the coming
                                                      months.  We’re
                                                      confident approval
                                                      will be
                                                      forthcoming since
                                                      OpenID Connect is
                                                      already in
                                                      production at
                                                      Google, a product
                                                      has been announced
                                                      by Ping Identity,
                                                      a JWT product has
                                                      shipped from
                                                      Microsoft, and we
                                                      expect numerous
                                                      OpenID Connect and
                                                      JWT deployments in
                                                      the coming months.</span></p>
                                                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span></p>
                                                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Our

                                                      work is dependent
                                                      on the JSON Web
                                                      Token (JWT) and
                                                      the JSON Object
                                                      Signing and
                                                      Encryption (JOSE)
                                                      specifications,
                                                      products of the
                                                      IETF OAuth and
                                                      JOSE working
                                                      groups.  JWTs have
                                                      been stable for
                                                      some time, and
                                                      code to parse and
                                                      validate them is
                                                      widely available
                                                      in libraries for
                                                      popular
                                                      programming
                                                      languages.
                                                       However, progress
                                                      towards an RFC in
                                                      JOSE seems slow,
                                                      which is holding
                                                      up the JWT RFC in
                                                      OAuth, and we do
                                                      not have a clear
                                                      feeling when this
                                                      work is likely to
                                                      complete.  As
                                                      chartered, the
                                                      JOSE documents
                                                      were have gone to
                                                      working group last
                                                      call a year ago
                                                      and this still has
                                                      not happened.</span></p>
                                                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span></p>
                                                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Unfortunately,

                                                      it’s not practical
                                                      for our membership
                                                      to wait
                                                      indefinitely, and
                                                      thus our most
                                                      likely course of
                                                      action will be to
                                                      take dependencies
                                                      on draft-ietf-oauth-json-web-token-08

                                                      and the -11
                                                      versions of the
                                                      JOSE
                                                      specifications or
                                                      subsequent
                                                      versions that are
                                                      compatible with
                                                      them when the time
                                                      comes to publish
                                                      our final
                                                      specifications. 
                                                      It would obviously
                                                      be preferable for
                                                      the JWT and JOSE
                                                      RFCs to be
                                                      completed in a
                                                      timely fashion
                                                      instead.</span></p>
                                                  <div>
                                                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span></p>
                                                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">We

                                                        bring this to
                                                        your attention
                                                        simply because
                                                        if some other
                                                        organization
                                                        were planning to
                                                        lock in a
                                                        dependency on
                                                        one of our
                                                        earlier drafts,
                                                        we’d like to
                                                        hear about it.</span></p>
                                                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span></p>
                                                  </div>
                                                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">--

                                                      Tim Bray for the
                                                      OpenID Connect
                                                      Working Group and
                                                      the OpenID
                                                      Foundation</span></p>
                                                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span></p>
                                                  <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
                                                      <a href="mailto:openid-specs-ab-bounces@lists.openid.net" target="_blank">openid-specs-ab-bounces@lists.openid.net</a>
                                                      [mailto:<a href="mailto:openid-specs-ab-bounces@lists.openid.net" target="_blank">openid-specs-ab-bounces@lists.openid.net</a>]
                                                      <b>On Behalf Of </b>Brian

                                                      Campbell<br>
                                                      <b>Sent:</b>
                                                      Thursday, June 13,
                                                      2013 6:30 AM<br>
                                                      <b>To:</b> Tim
                                                      Bray<br>
                                                      <b>Cc:</b> <<a href="mailto:openid-specs-ab@lists.openid.net" target="_blank">openid-specs-ab@lists.openid.net</a>><br>
                                                      <b>Subject:</b>
                                                      Re:
                                                      [Openid-specs-ab]
                                                      Draft note to IETF</span></p>
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                                                          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">While somewhat esoteric, it's probably
                                                          important in
                                                          this context
                                                          to be accurate
                                                          about the
                                                          various
                                                          documents and
                                                          the WGs that
                                                          are
                                                          responsible
                                                          for them.</p>
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                                                          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Though JWT does depend heavily on JOSE
                                                          work, it
                                                          itself isn't a
                                                          JOSE WG item. 
                                                          Rather it is a
                                                          product of the
                                                          OAUTH WG<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">
                                                          and, as such,
                                                          asking the
                                                          JOSE WG to do
                                                          anything with
                                                          JWT doesn't
                                                          make a lot of
                                                          sense.</span></p>
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                                                        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">The

                                                          broader issue
                                                          remains though
                                                          and I support
                                                          the Connect 
                                                          group
                                                          providing some
                                                          encouragement
                                                          to the IETF
                                                          towards
                                                          progressing
                                                          the
                                                          dependencies.
                                                          But we
                                                          probably need
                                                          to acknowledge
                                                          that even
                                                          within the
                                                          IETF the
                                                          document and
                                                          WG
                                                          relationships
                                                          are somewhat
                                                          complicated by
                                                          dependencies.</span></p>
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                                                          <p class="MsoNormal">On
                                                          Wed, Jun 12,
                                                          2013 at 3:00
                                                          PM, Tim Bray
                                                          <<a href="mailto:tbray@textuality.com" target="_blank">tbray@textuality.com</a>>

                                                          wrote:</p>
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                                                          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">This

                                                          should go to
                                                          the JOSE WG
                                                          chair, the ADs
                                                          for that area,
                                                          and the IESG</span></p>
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                                                          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">I’m

                                                          writing on
                                                          behalf of the
                                                          OpenID Connect
                                                          Working Group,
                                                          in the OpenID
                                                          Foundation.
                                                           We have been
                                                          working for
                                                          <insert-time-period>
                                                          on specifying
                                                          this
                                                          identity-federation
                                                          protocol. Our
                                                          specifications
                                                          have reached
                                                          stability
                                                          (what we call
                                                          “implementor’s
                                                          draft”) and we
                                                          anticipate a
                                                          final vote and
                                                          approval in
                                                          the coming
                                                          months.  We’re
                                                          confident
                                                          approval will
                                                          be forthcoming
                                                          since OIDC is
                                                          already in
                                                          production at
                                                          Google,
                                                          <insert-other-deployments>
                                                          and we expect
                                                          deployments at
<insert-other-predictions>.</span></p>
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                                                          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Our

                                                          work is
                                                          dependent on
                                                          JWT, a product
                                                          of the IETF
                                                          “jose” working
                                                          group.  JWTs
                                                          have been
                                                          stable for
                                                          some time, and
                                                          code to parse
                                                          and validate
                                                          them is widely
                                                          available in
                                                          libraries for
                                                          popular
                                                          programming
                                                          languages.
                                                           However,
                                                          progress
                                                          towards an RFC
                                                          in jose seems
                                                          slow, and we
                                                          do not have a
                                                          feeling when
                                                          this work is
                                                          likely to
                                                          stabilize.</span></p>
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                                                          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Unfortunately,

                                                          it’s not
                                                          practical for
                                                          our membership
                                                          to wait, and
                                                          thus our most
                                                          likely course
                                                          of action will
                                                          be to take a
                                                          dependency
                                                          on draft-ietf-oauth-json-web-token-08
                                                          when the time
                                                          comes to
                                                          publish our
                                                          specification.
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                                                          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">We

                                                          bring this to
                                                          your attention
                                                          simply because
                                                          if some other
                                                          organization
                                                          were planning
                                                          to lock in a
                                                          dependency on
                                                          one of our
                                                          earlier
                                                          drafts, we’d
                                                          like to hear
                                                          about it.  </span></p>
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                                                          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">[I’m

                                                          going to
                                                          unofficially
                                                          run this by
                                                          some of my
                                                          IETF-insider
                                                          contacts, but
                                                          thought I
                                                          should
                                                          sanity-check
                                                          the content
                                                          here first]</span></p>
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